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Paperback Schoolboy, Servant, Gwr Apprentice: The Memoirs of Alfred Plumley 1880-1892 Book

ISBN: 0750969938

ISBN13: 9780750969932

Schoolboy, Servant, Gwr Apprentice: The Memoirs of Alfred Plumley 1880-1892

In 1890, after strings were pulled by his kindly mistress at the big house, 16-year-old page-boy Alfred Plumley unexpectedly found himself leaving domestic service and beginning an apprenticeship with the GWR. Based on his own eloquent memoir, this book uses Alfred's two years as a lad porter at a Somerset village station to explore the importance of the railways in 19th century rural life. High-spirited Alfred quickly comes to love his new life and,...

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